Book 3: Chapter 36: Announcement
Riker
October 2227
Sol
Bedlam.
No, even that wasn’t a strong enough word. It reminded me of the first meetings of the UN, way back when. Everyone was attempting to talk at once. Half the people were hammering their Request buttons, the other half were ignoring them. The chairperson sat at her desk with her head in her hand.
I grinned into the camera. Technically, I still had the floor, so my mike was active. “Sooooo, want to hear more?”
The chaos cut off like a switch had been thrown.
“As I said, this vessel will hold all of the remaining population of Earth. Every last one. We will obviously still have to build stasis pods. However, Herschel and Neil, the two Bobs in charge of the Bellerophon, are also building pods in their cargo bay as they travel. Good news, they have all the material they could possibly need. Bad news, with relativistic time dilation, they’ll only have three and a half years to work with.”
Representative Misra requested and got the floor. “Could they slow slightly and enjoy a longer subjective time to work in?”